Database cracks missing person cases - if used

Database cracks missing person cases - if used

In a photo made March 17, 2007, Janice Smolinski poses in her Cheshire, Conn., home where a photo of her son, Billy, is visible in the foreground. Billy disappeared from his Waterbury, Conn., home in August 2004, and Smolinski believes a Justice Department database program will someday help find her son, who was 31 when he vanished.